I’m not sure you can measure the prosperity of a society by their number of sex workers.

The papal states sponsored art from classical artists, but they also censored the artists and disfigured their statues. If the state had invested in the arts secularly I believe it would only have improved outcomes.

Reem Riyashi was indeed literate, though there are also Islamic states that suppress female literacy; when the church is the state everything gets worse.

Windows in particular I think gets overlooked as ‘good enough’, it’s only when you get into Linux that you really understand how far it has strayed from the light.

You don’t need to spend hours and hours to start, you can dip your toes in with WSL, maybe use a Linux VM for a few tasks that make your life easier at work. It’s not an all-or-nothing affair, but having proficiency in more than one operating system is great professional development regardless of your personal computing preferences.

I’ve found that many people will go to great lengths to avoid learning anything new.

They want to be able to ignore their computers as much as possible, even considering the prospect of alternative software is taxing and upsetting for them.

I think that’s basically how Microsoft and Adobe are so successful, they bought and cheated their way into the default position, and now they can do whatever they want with no real repercussions.

The user wants to click on the same icons with the same names as before, sometimes it’s as simple as wanting the same name; if it’s not called ‘outlook’ they don’t want it, doesn’t matter how well it works.

Don’t pretend like Mearsheimer is some sort of objective observer, he’s a fountain of wacky convictions. It’s also wild to use ‘get mad’ as a euphemism for military conquest and genocide.

Can we at least agree to call a spade a spade? Russia annexing Ukraine by force is military expansion. If we can put that to bed then the only issue in contention is determining if it was unprovoked or not. If we can’t agree on such a plainly obvious fact then I have misgivings we can come to an understanding at all.

You’re making excuses for a genocide, do you really not understand why that could make people upset?

Hopefully your powers of comprehension are more suited to discussions of history, let’s get into it:

Ukraine split from Russia in the 90s with a referendum, over 90% voted for independence. Russia has wanted to regain control over Ukraine ever since. In 2014 Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s sovereign territory. In 2022 it escalated into full scale war, with Russia attempting to take the entire country.

Ukraine is a distinct nation with its own language and culture. The people have the right to self determination, they are a sovereign nation. Fostering closer ties to the EU is their perogative as a free people, to call it provocation is to deny their essential freedom. Expanding borders through conquest is military expansion, plain and simple.

You might want to fuck all the way off. They invaded their neighbor, stole their land, slaughtered families, and stole their children.

Ukraine did nothing that could justify such atrocities. There is no excuse. It is a genocide.

I used to do that with HTML, make a fake little website and open it.

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They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.

There are some that are a heck of a lot better. Oxfam, Ben & Jerries, maybe Valve; but it does seem that on a large enough timeline all of them turn to the dark side.

Biden

Yeah, they should have. Congress ended up doing the opposite, forcing him to continue funding. Democrats don’t have nearly the party unity that Republicans do around immigration, I think that’s why it keeps being leveraged as a wedge issue.

I thought you were saying they were ineffective at enacting their agenda because they didn’t use rescission packages.

If we’re talking about what you just said I have no quarrel.

I’m with you there but you could not have got even a simple majority of elected representatives to agree to that. It would have to be something that Democrats broadly support.

Well a rescission package can only be used to cut spending, so it couldn’t have been used by the Democrats to pass new spending.

What do you think they should have used it to cut?

The only differences I can think of is not chickening out on the tariffs and forcing the interest rate lower to kick off runaway inflation.

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What percentage are European? I didn’t know that.

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